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Keith Gessen, one of the literary magazine’s founders, explains.
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Gessen’s title harks back to a work by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and some readers aren’t pleased.
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All The Sad Young Literary Men is for college grads wondering “how this works,” says Gessen.
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Gessen discusses the triptych structure of the book, and addresses some criticisms.
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Gessen always wanted to be one, but it took him a while to sit down and start.
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Finding a context for his parents and himself.
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Businesses have to see it as the profit opportunity it is, says Cooley.
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Dean Cooley talks about NYU’s business school competition.
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NYU’s Thomas Cooley has yet to see a reason why it should change.
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How do concrete economic factors stack up against herd behavior, and what is the media’s role in all of this? Thomas Cooley responds.
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Thomas Cooley talks about the investment opportunities in a weak market with a weak American dollar.
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NYU economist Thomas Cooley explains complicated derivative securities.
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The ones that bet against mortgages did phenomenally well, Cooley says.
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NYU’s Thomas Cooley discusses the state of Wall Street today and where it’s going.
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Is there a political solution to the credit crisis?